@whisht

The still of Balok, from Star Trek’s The Corbomite Manoeuvre, is on the nose. A puppet as it turned out. The protagonist was in fact a hyper intelligent baby.

The potential use of puppets is worrying for anyone who saw the Bandrill ‘video link’ from 1985’s Time Lash. However, the Bandrills look nothing like Anita Dobson, unlike the Balok puppet.

@cathannabel

I also struggle with Pullman!

I don’t mind Lewis’ theology. It’s there. You’d be mad to ignore it. Just don’t like the philosophy. Lewis was a literary scholar NOT a philosopher.

I think his male chauvinism was so over the top, it’s half hearted: a kind of pipe and slippers in the drawing room pastiche. I’ve expressed my admiration…[Read more]

@cathannabel @dwnerdfrommars

Lewis confession. I’m really not sure about The Last Battle: weird death cult vibes & the problem of Susan. In fact, C S Lewis is often really quite annoying. The man who thought it was cool to indoctrinate kids with The Trilemma.

And then he’ll go and write the damnedest thing, like the Dwarves who wouldn’t be taken…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars

Rani = Rain = Flood? Hmmm.

I always thought the Rani had the same job description as Tecteun. Goons in The Division must have had day jobs right? Good cover. Shouldn’t really comment because I try to say away from Chris’s oevre.

People think Mrs F letting Conrad out must be a good thing but we don’t where he’s going or why. Lo…[Read more]

@nerys

Surely, according to his logic, we should be penalising Hollywood?

Perhaps the elect have had enough of efficient well trained British thesps what with their manageable egos, professional timekeeping and mysterious accents. The villains need to be less sympathetic.
Time for Broadway hoofers to wipe off the lipstick, grab the black hat,…[Read more]

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave

enjoyable? It was a hefty continuation, or prequel as it turns out, of a season that is shaping up very nicely.

Worrying? Well, it seems like we’ve been warned about this for years. We thought, yeah that’s just stuff on computers, it’s not real. Data? Hrrrppp! What can they do with data? Get real.

It is real.…[Read more]

Well… I looked at Kerblam and Praexus on McTighe’s CV and I did have my doubts. Then the first half didn’t fill me with confidence. But yes it was a set up. A rather good one. Just goes to show, it was indeed Chris who done ‘it’; ‘it’ being whatever it is we don’t want.

Takeaways:

Conrad (a radical connan?) is the guy who gave The Doctor Beli…[Read more]

The early seasons of the X files featured more monsters of the week, with just a few ‘arc’ stories. Cigarette Smoking Man and the alien invasion got quite tiresome very quickly.

Monsters are, more often than not, cardboard cut outs. Some are derivative. Tim Shaw was basically the love child of Predator and Jem’Hadar. Ought to have been creep…[Read more]

@whohar

Surely Stupid Sutekh was too stupid to actually be Sutekh? A case of Artificial Unintelligence.

@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb

Gallifrey was hidden CLOSE to end of The Universe because of Infamy… apparently The Universe had it in for them. I have days like that. But it wasn’t the ACTUAL end, presumably because the heating bill was too…[Read more]

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb

If Mrs Flood turns up with a gold tooth, then she is Missy Master. I surrender. Thing is, last time I saw it, gnasher in question was last seen in Max Capricorn’s gob while he plummeted into the Titanic’s Storm Drive with Kylie. Explain.

Safe to say, Moff was pro Gallifrey; RTD and Duff Chris were anti. Is…[Read more]

@whohar

Well observed.

… also is this the reason why she was quite so forthright about dna sampling? Though why shouldn’t she? It’s a contrast to Rog of the William’s bunch for instance.

Alternatively, for those who may have ah kinda been following my erm… song and dance over the critter from Midnight, one germanic etymology for ‘Belinda’…[Read more]

@whohar

The Snowmen: the intelligent snow became tears when that iteration of Clara died. You had the snow. Now you get the wet stuff.

Midnight: no we don’t know that this IS the same critter. Though The Doctor said that before it was ‘having fun.’ Times change. You asked about the ‘Mercury Fall’… I’m not sure it would form a mirror, but t…[Read more]

@juniperfish

The 50’s generally in nuwho:

Remembrance of The Daleks (strictly 1963 but see below), The Idiot’s Lantern, Rosa, The Devil’s Chord (on the basis of the quote about the sixties really starting with the release of Please Please Me): it’s NOT a big sample.

Yes I think RTD may be attracted by preppy/mod stylings… he may think it appeal…[Read more]

Good old fashioned Base Under Siege, complete with arsy squaddie who knows best. Yes, a hint of Aliens. Also the drop over Vulcan from Star Trek reboot. And more than a bit of Under The Lake and Waters of Mars. Companion gets shot through the chest and survives. Somehow. Just as well Shaya didn’t have a Varron T disrupter.

But yes, it’s pla…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

noted

@whohar

Well continuity porn is a big risk for RTD. That’s where you tend to both lose potential new fans and p*ss off established ones. I’m talking about Resurrection of the Daleks, or Attack of the Cybermen. Not a good look.

There again we, as fans, are trying to make sense of something that might only be dependent on what side of bed Russ get…[Read more]

Re The Mindrobber connection… I thought perhaps I might move the discussion here from The Lux forum.

When might have this arc… and it is obviously an arc… become less rooted in reality… and what significance might regeneration or bigeneration have for it?

Clearly ‘is you uncle alright?’ doesn’t answer any questions. Having a spare… indeed…[Read more]

My theory about the Brontosaurus, was it was thin at one end, thick in the middle and thin at the other… a  bit like the last series.

Otherwise…

Mrs Flood is PROBABLY River post New York girl, pre Mel from Leadworth. Some Time Travel ensues.

How is she (and Susan Triad) everywhere? VR built to reflect The Doctor’s life.

Why? The bigene…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

apparently the original vinyl release of DSotM included 2 posters. One was an infrared photo of the great pyramids of Giza.

I’m not sure what the ‘space pyramid’ inspiration may have been. Was it Von Daniken, and both the Floyd poster and Doctor Who went with that general idea? Or was one triangular structure as good as any other…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Zing! The secret ingredient.

RTD1 had it; series 2 was a little flat… though it did give us the outrageous Love and Monsters.

Moff has the upper hand on story telling, though not script edding. More duff eps. Less quality control. But mostly top notch in all the right categories.

The production values of Classic Who ARE d…[Read more]